PG&E... now has spent $46 million to buy it's PROP 16 monopoly

[Ernesto]

....."Then there's the local image of PG&E as a monopoly spending $46 million on a California ballot measure that, critics say, was written to shield PG&E from competition. A company that tried to stop Marin County from forming its own public power agency. A company determined to install new electricity and gas meters that many of its customers don't trust."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2010/06/05/MNPC1DPIJ5.DTL

[Ernesto]

1. Sac Bee opinion

1. Proposition 16 – This is nothing less than an attempt by Pacific Gas and Electric to lock its monopoly status into the state constitution. Public power agencies would face an incredibly high bar – a two-thirds vote – to expand service and offer cheaper rates to businesses and other customers in PG&E territory. If this initiative passes, it will affirm that would-be monopolies can use their wealth to effectively buy an election. Other corporations are watching and will be close behind them.

Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2010/06/06/2799786/5-reasons-your-vote-could-count.html#ixzz0q7DuAncV

[itsrobert]

2. Who do they think they are?

Meg Whitman?